And Elizabeth Warren is actually from Oklahoma, where the Cherokee were sent on the Trail of Tears. Not at all surprising that she has some Cherokee ancestors.

If you are a 50/50 mix you are concerned black no matter what color the other 50% mix. If the day ever comes when all we say about a person is that”he is an American” and not mention skin pigment and racial background, we can truly say that the USA is not prejudiced anymore and one more ploy to divide the Country will be gone.

Typical left winger. if someone disagrees with you, you resort to name calling and moronic comments like “wife picking up food stamps?” I would be wiling to bet that the vast majority of food stamp recipients voted for Obama and Liz Warren. So what is clever about that?

I think that you need to check your information. The largest number of food stamp recipients live in urban areas. Which overwhelmingly vote for the President.

You are replying to an ages old commentary. Let it go. She obviously got away with it. There is a huge difference between repeating family lore, and checking a box to gain an advantage in employment. And please do not insult yourself or me bay saying that she gained no advantage. Harvard published the story of their hiring of the first female-native-American professor. So merry Christmas to you. Check your facts. You had 2 months and still couldn’t get it right. So, leave me alone. I’ve no time for sheeple.

To me, what I believe as for the reason for leaving is this.

I believe within the next 50 to 100 years or sooner, we are very likely going to be in a Civil War.

This is not a matter of political ideology. This is not even a matter of Patriotism. It is a matter of survival.

None of us here now will probably not live to experience this. But, do you want your children to?

I for one an not willing to die for someones elses bank account.

Many Senior Citizens already have left. They retain dual citizenships and retire somewhere else. There quite a few retirement communities set along the US/Mexico Border purposely developed for US Seniors to retire to. I’ve chatted with a few and they wouldn’t move back under any condition. They’re not rich either.

Because many research grants are being cut by republicans, many of our brightest scientist are now located elsewhere. This is a growing trend. They also hold dual citizenship. This is also a consequence of a declining education system here. Lack of funding our public schools is the primary cause. And, putting a major focus not on science is also another cause.

So, you see, I’m not so crazy about this.

2009. Democrat President. Democrat control of both the House and the Senate. They could have easily modified the budget and the spending. Did they?

Again, you don’t understand the process. The bills progress through the Congress and are signed into law by the President. The federal fiscal year runs from October first through September 29, so most of the spending in any given calendar year is from a bill signed into law by the President the previous year.

Thus, GWBs last spending actions (i.e. bills he signed into law) occured on September 30, 2008. Obama’s first spending actions for the fedgov took effect on 10/1/2009. The $1.8T in spending that took place in 2009 occured because GWB signed bills into law spending that money.

Well, something we can agree on. Ending the war in Afghanistan. I would prefer that Obama would end it today. But looking at it pragmatically, it probably would put our troops and others at greater risk. A year does seem like a long time. I’m guessing that it seems like an eternity to the troops on the ground there.

Yes, they got one major bill through, as I said. With 193 GOP amendments. “Despised”? As more people understand it, the polls I see show it moving to 70+% saying modify and keep it.

Remember, the House couldn’t pass a bill that would pass the Senate, so the Senate bill was passed through the House. That’s how all the “poison pills” got passed into law.

I never said I wanted the filibuster eliminated. It is the only limit on the “tyranny of the majority” with regard to laws. Does it pose a limit? Sure. It forces some things off the table at inopportune times, the threat is used far too often (in my opinion), but the party in power always has a short memory as to how history flips over. The rule can only be changed on one day at the beginning of the session (in January), and frankly I dont know how I’d change it to make it “harder” and keep it useable, at the same time.

Sorry, there were over 160.

“July 15, 2009 — The Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee passes The Affordable Health Choices Act. The bipartisan bill includes more than 160 Republican amendments accepted during the month-long mark-up, one of the longest in congressional history.” from CNN “Timeline of the healthcare law”

That’s the “technical” spin they have to put on it to keep from being called “bipartisan” and warranting a primary challenge from one of Grover’s teabaggers.

One of the GOP amendments that did make it into the final bill was the “small business poison pill” requiring all businesses to issue 1099s to anyone doing more than $600 worth of business. Presumably they thought it would be removed in conference, but since the House passed the Senate bill unamended, it required Congress to actually pass a law with a specific intent.

The proposed cuts to Medicare spending are identical to those proposed by the Ryan budget. Interestingly, Romney distanced himeself from those savings, promising to reverse them, so I guess he was all for Medicare going insolvent by 2016?

I don’t receive Medicare. My primary care doctor has a Medicare practice (as well as insurance) and her Medicare co-pay is higher than her insco co-pay from the patient. She’s busy, has adequate nursing staff, is affiliated with three local hospitals. I’m sure she’s re-run the math a few times over the decade or more we’ve gone to her, and would have changed her practice if she weren’t making enough money.

So I guess my question back is, why is it OK for Ryan to pull $716B out, but not Obama? The same $716B is gone, but instead of insuring new patients, it goes to the military?

Earlier in the election, the Ryan budget was touted by the GOP until the $716B in Medicare cuts were found. Then it went straight back into the closet.

Typically, when a new price point is introdced into a market, the current purveyors grouse about quality, etc. to prop up their own profit point. I’m sure the same will happen in the medical field until the practices bring in Nurse Practitioners and RNs to do some of the work that the doctor does now. After that, the price and labor points will rebalance, and care won’t be affected.

My doc charges a lower copay to me on my insco than the Medicare patients (I asked for the Medicare discount once when I went to re-negotiate our fee-for-service deal), but I have no idea how the insco payments compare to Medicare payments. I’ll know in a year or two…

The last insco summary I looked at showed that the amount paid was a significant discount off the bill, something over 30% if I remember correctly. The doc never passed the unpaid portion of the bill to me, so my suspicion is that her practice is run using accrual accounting and she takes the full write-down of any bills like that.

I had my appendix out around two years ago, and the total bills amounted to just over $43k. My deductible was $10k and I settled with the hospital for $3200. I don’t know what the insco settled up with the hospital, but I’m sure it was nowhere close to the $33k they were billed.

Dem’s took over congress in 2007 and that’s when their legislation that ruined our economy started.
There hasn’t been 1 net job added under barak. There are 23 million unemployed and there are less people employed under barak than at anytime during W’s second term. Just because Barak says it doesn’t make it true try finding another messiah.
The 1% pay 70 % of the taxes, time for the dem base the 51% who don’t pat taxes to start

That your a fool